Le Week-End (opens in Cleveland April 18th exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre)

[LE WEEK-END opens in Cleveland on Friday April 18 th exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre.]

Review by Bob Ignizio

An old English married couple take a trip to Paris hoping to rekindle their romance in LE WEEK-END. Husband Nick (Jim Broadbent) is a professor who has just recently lost his job for making an inappropriate comment about a student's hairstyle. At one time full of passion and potential, Nick pretty much stumbles through life, making bad judgments not just at work but in his dealings with wife Meg (Lindsay Duncan). As a result Meg finds herself having to carry most of the weight in trying to make something out of the couple's vacation, and it begins to take a toll.

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Review by Pamela Zoslov

“Love/hate relationship with Wes” and “Can't stand quirky for quirky's sake” are the titles of two contentious comment threads on the movie website imdb.com. Participants in these conversations vociferously debate the merits of director-writer Wes Anderson, who is known for his quirky, stylized films, the eighth of which is THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL. Set in an aging, once-elegant hotel in the mythical Republic of Zubrowka, it is perhaps the apotheosis of Anderson's stagebound, confectionary style. And, like the Courtisane au Chocolate, the fancy pastry that figures in the movie's Byzantine plot, it may be too cloying for some.